Gauntlet (1985 video game)
1985 arcade game by Atari Games / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gauntlet is a 1985 fantasy-themed hack-and-slash arcade game developed and released by Atari Games.[6] It is noted as being one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games.[8][9] The core design of Gauntlet comes from 1983 Atari 8-bit dungeon crawl game Dandy, which resulted in a threat of legal action.[10] It also bears striking similarities to the action-adventure maze game Time Bandit (1983).
Gauntlet | |
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Developer(s) | Atari Games (arcade) Tengen (NES) |
Publisher(s) | Arcade Ports Tengen U.S. Gold |
Designer(s) | Ed Logg |
Programmer(s) | Bob Flanagan[1] |
Artist(s) | Sam Comstock[2] Susan G. McBride[2] Alan J. Murphy[2] Will Noble[2] |
Composer(s) | Arcade/NES Hal Canon Earl Vickers Atari ST 2 Bit Systems Replay Amstrad/Spectrum Ben Daglish Master System Tiertex |
Series | Gauntlet |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Macintosh, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, MSX, Master System, NES, Genesis, ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, PlayStation |
Release | Arcade |
Genre(s) | Hack and slash Dungeon crawl Maze |
Mode(s) | Single-player, 4-player multiplayer |
Arcade system | Atari Gauntlet |
The arcade version of Gauntlet was released in November 1985 and was initially available only as a dedicated four-player cabinet. Atari distributed a total of 7,848 arcade units.[11] In Japan, the game was released by Namco in February 1986.[7] Atari later released a two-player cabinet variant in June 1986, aimed at operators who could not afford or did not have sufficient space for the four-player version.[5][12]